💬 Quotes

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it, especially when the odds are stacked as high as the towers of Helium."

"Savagery is not a monopoly of the untamed wastes; often, it wears the glittering robes of civilization and hides behind sophisticated laws."

"Love knows no bounds of race, planet, or custom; it speaks a universal language understood alike by the red men of Barsoom and the children of Earth."

"To conquer oneself is a far greater victory than to subdue a city of a million souls."

"Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen."

"Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be."

"Diplomacy, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country."

"Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things immeasurable."

"History, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools."

"Pessimist, n. One who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."

"Of all the curses that can be laid upon a man, surely the heaviest is that he should outlive his generation, and stand alone like a blasted tree upon a burnt-out plain."

"Love is stronger than death, aye, and stronger even than the fear of the king's spears, which is the greatest fear that we know in Zululand."

"The king's word is like the storm-wind; it uproots the tall tree and spares the blade of grass, and none may ask why it blows this way or that."

"The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding."

"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."

"The settlement, then, is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city."

"Action is the only medium through which the wise ethical insight can convert itself into demonstrable reality."

"Settlement demands nothing less of its residents than that they shall give up preconceived judgments and shall make themselves a part of the community, sharing its life and its perplexities."

"Le fantôme de l'Opéra existe!"

"L'amour est le plus beau de tous les arts, mais c'est aussi le plus terrible."